32The Basics

Adding a category

1.From the Home screen, touch the Apps Key .

2.Press the Menu Key and touch Manage category > Add.

3.Enter the category name, then touch Save.

NOTE You can also touch Delete to delete categories or Reset to reset the categories back to default.

Opening and Switching Applications

Multi-tasking is easy with AndroidTM because open applications keep running even when you open another application. There’s no need to quit an application before opening another. You can use and switch among several open applications. Android manages each application, stopping and starting them as needed, to ensure that idle applications don’t consume resources unnecessarily.

Opening an application

Open an application simply by touching its icon on the screen.

TIP! You can customize your Home screen with the application icons you use most often. Applications are located on the Apps screen, but you can copy any application icon to your Home screen for faster access. No matter where the icon is, on the Apps screen or your Home screen, just touch it to open and use it.

Opening multiple applications

1.Touch an application icon to open it.

2.Press the Home Key .

 

NOTE If the application icon you want is on your Home screen, simply touch the icon to open

 

and use it.

3.

Touch the Apps Key .

4.

Touch the icon for the other application you want to open.